Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
The issues addressed by BASC are at the forefront of contemporary concerns. BASC's interests include advancing methodologies and technologies for supporting weather and climate science, improving understanding and prediction of weather and climate variability and related impacts on society, understanding atmospheric composition and chemistry, facilitating research on interactions between the atmosphere and land, ocean, and cryosphere, improving understanding of atmospheric and climate sciences and helping make this understanding relevant to national needs.
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Potential Environmental Effects of Nuclear War
Consensus
·2025
In response to the buildup of U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals during the Cold War, a series of major scientific studies conducted in the 1980s issued warnings about the potential for a "nuclear winter" scenario - the possibility that a large-scale nuclear exchange could inject massive amounts of s...
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TRB Annual Meeting | January 11 - 15, 2026
January 11 - 15, 2026 | The TRB Annual Meeting brings together thousands of transportation professionals worldwide for sessions across all modes and sectors.